- What the hell is going on over at El Museo Del Barrio? The former Director, Margarita Aguilar, filed a claim with New York State human rights officials last week, citing gender discrimination. The Museum’s Board Chairman Tony Bechara and Board President Yaz Hernández have refused to comment. [NYTimes]
- It seems the Oscars were a disaster last night: The Onion calls a nine year old girl a cunt over twitter, and host Seth MacFarlane spent the night making sexist jokes. But Charlize Theron looked good, so I guess there’s that. [The Internet]
- Carolina Miranda wrote a longish feature on Richard Jackson’s survey show at The Orange County Museum. According to Miranda, Jackson has used a Ford Pinto as a painting tool, so that sculpture of a dog pissing over the museum some of you have seen bouncing around the web may be the tip of the iceberg. [kcet]
- A Queer History of Computing. [Rhizome]
- Oh God. Jen Graves has written a piece on the art of Charles Krafft, a holocaust denier. His work is in the collections of several museums. [The Stranger]
- Those Peter Williams paintings we liked so much at NADA have gotten him another show at Foxy. John Yau gives it the thumbs up. [Hyperallergic]
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